Quotes About Scarcity

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.

They can print more money," he liked to say, "and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can't print more land.

Two is one; one is none.

we can't keep it going if too much of what we need is taken away from us.

In Russia a straight nose is rarer than a small foot.

I think the antidote to any symptom borne of fear and scarcity is love. Compassion, understanding, respect, honor: all the things we need to help the world heal begin there.

It's like this…a starving man would gladly eat a radish, right? In fact, a radish would be a feast if that's all he had. But if he had a buffet in front of him, the radish would never be chosen.

Yet our moment is rare and extraordinary, a recognition that allows us to make life's impermanence and the scarcity of self-reflective awareness the basis for value and a foundation for gratitude.

Influencia, Robert Cialdini

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

No one said anything. The midday heat beat down on them, baking their bodies within the oven of clothes long since gone stiff with sweat and dirt, their minds as tired as their expectations. Hawk couldn't remember his last real bath. None of them had done more than wash off a little dirt and cool down their faces at the end of each day's trek since they had set out. Before that, things hadn't been much better. Food was growing scarce, too. Time was as thin as hope.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

The desert has its own currency and it is measured in water.

The guy appeared to be on the verge of tears. "Zere is no more bread," he confessed tragically, like someone admitting witchcraft to the Inquisition.

A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.

There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours—that was rare. Even Marx—Marx was devoted, creative, and bright, but he was not Sadie.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

There, there are no chicken wings

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.